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A. SANSON E. APPLICATION OF COLORING MATTER T0 FABRICS.

Patented Feb. 7,1882.

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ANTONIO SANS ONE, OF MANCHESTER, COUNTY OF LANCASTER, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY D. DUPEE, OF BOSTON, MASS,

APPLICATION OF COLORING-MATTER TO FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,230, dated February '7, I882.

Application filed October 17, 1881. (No specimens.) English patent No. 2,689 of 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTONIO SANSONE, of Manchester, county of Lancaster, England, have invented an Improvement in the Application'of Coloring-Matter to Fabrics, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification.

This invention has for its object to produce stippled or spotted effects, of one or more colors, on one or both sides of fabrics composed of any usual materialsucl1 as cotton, wool, silk, &c.

In the practice of my inventions I take any gra'nulou's or powdered insoluble substancesuch as sand, powdered glass, or equivalent materials-and cover, coat, or envelop the same more or less with a solution of aniline or other suitable color substance, and dry it thereon in a stove or in any proper way. This insoluble granulous or powdered substance, so coated or covered, is then applied,either alone or mixed with plain sand, to the fabric to be colored or stippled by means of a sieve or in any other suitable manner, the fabric being wet, and as the fabric is dried in the open air or artificially the color material applied to it by the granular or powdered substance is fixed in the fabric. The fabric to be stipplcd or spotted in this way can be mordanted on the whole or on but a portion of its surface; or the mordant' may be printed on the fabric in patterns, fanciful designs, or stripes; or the fabric to be treated may be a fabric having different colors. Theinsoluble granulous or powdered substance applied to a mordanted fabric will be printed and appear stippled or spotted only on the mordanted part of the fabric.

If desired, several colors can be printed simultaneously by preparing the sand or insoluble or powdered material with the different colors separately, and, when dried, mixing them together and applying them to the fabric, as described.

The colors may be resisted or discharged, as is well known to color-printers, either by print ing ordinary patterns on spotted ground or by resisting or discharging spotted effects. After the application of the color the fabric will be dried by natural or artificial heat, and the coloring be fixed by steaming or be washed,

according to requirements.

The drawing shows a piece of striped fabric. The stripes a were properly mordanted to receive the color from the insoluble sand or powdered substance carrying the color, as described; The spots on the stripes to are intended to represent the colored spots produced as described. These spots may be of the same or different colors.

The shape, size, or contour of the spots may be controlled according to the shape, size, and contour of the insoluble substance to which the color is applied, as stated. I

I am aware that it is not new to color fibrous material by means of an infusorial earth impregnated with coloring material and made to combine with fibrous material through the presence of an oleaginous substance, as in United States Patents No. 223,019, No. 242,080, and I do not claim anything shownor described in the said patents. In my invention the fabric upon which the insoluble granular substances such as stated, covered with coloring substances, are scattered is always wet sufficiently to cause the color to be taken from the granular substance by the wet fabric.

I claim- 1. That improvement in the art or method of applying coloring-matter to fabrics which consists in applying to the mordanted and wet fabric a dry insoluble granulous or powdered substance, such as described, coated or covered with an aniline or other suitable color substance, as set forth.

2. That improvement in the art or method ofsimultaneously producingspotted or stippled effects on mordanted fabrics which consists in first coating or covering separately insoluble granulous or powdered substances, substantially as described, with each of the several aniline or other color substances suitable to produce the different-colored spots to be shown on the fabric and drying the same thereon, and then mixing the said separate] y-prepared dried granulous or powdered substances and scattering and applying them on a wet mordanted fabric, so as to deliver to the said mordanted parts of the said fabric the coloring substance thereon, and then drying the fabric, substantially as set forth.

3. Theherein-described process ot'producing stippled efi'ects on woven fabrics,which consists in scattering upon the inordanted wet fabric sand or powdered insoluble granular substances, suchas described, a. portion of which has been previously coated with aniline or other suitable coloring substance, as described, and

ro dried thereon, and a portion of which is in its natural dry state, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

ANTONIO sANsoNE.

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